The mill discharge was then transferred to a 2.5 L Denver flotation cell at the pulp density of 25% (w/v). After that, the desired amounts of reagents were added to the slurry while agitating at 1200 r/min and the slurry was conditioned for 5 min. ... Evaluation of chemical and operational variables for the flotation of a copper ore. Part I ...
The depression of pyrite in copper ore flotation is a challenge in high salinity water although natural pyrite can be depressed readily at alkaline pH due to the formation of iron hydroxides on pyrite surfaces (Boulton et al., 2001, Mu et al., 2016 ). In copper ore flotation, a galvanic interaction occurs between copper minerals and pyrite with ...
Fig. 12 (a) depicts the results of copper ore flotation with respect to sequence of collector addition in the presence of xanthate and thionocarbamate collector mixture in the ratio 1:1. The Cu recovery and grade is maximum when BBT was added first in the flotation cell.
Furthermore, Sahyoun et al. (2005) conducted flotation tests on the same ore and demonstrated a 3–6% increase in copper recovery after microwave treatment (up to 12 kW and 1.7 kW h/t on <22 mm size material) as opposed to the 1% increase reported by Kingman et al. (2000a), attributed to the higher power density sustained in the single …
Abstract. The ore process flotation technique is enhanced by using external ultra-sonic waves. Compared to the classical flotation method, the application of …
The Pineer froth flotation process enables sustainable and cost-effective copper/lead/zinc ore recovery. Comes from one supplier, responsible for the whole package. Provides mechanical and performance guarantees for the entire plant unit, with clear battery limits for engineering and implementation. Provides optimal process …
Dry grinding is usually preferred in regions where water is scarce and following process is dry. The effect of wet and dry grinding environment prior to flotation of sulfide ores has been a ...
This molybdenum flotation circuit, based on 250-500 tons per 24 hours is designed for low-grade molybdenum ore having high-grade streaks and with pyrite-quartz gangue. It is also basically sound for many …
Flotation may be the most important separation process used in the minerals industry. Its objective is to produce a salable concentrate from a mined ore with desired …
1. Introduction. Approximately 50% of the world's molybdenum production comes from Cu–Mo ore as a by-product (Bulatovic, 2007).The flotation recovery of molybdenite from porphyry Cu–Mo ore is consistently lower than that of the copper sulfides (Bulatovic et al., 1998, Bulatovic, 2007, Triffett et al., 2008).In 2004, the price of …
Impact of operation parameters on designing flotation cells (gas hold-up, superficial gas velocity, bubble size distribution and orifice type, etc.); ... (RNN) method were used to predict the copper ore flotation indices, i.e., grade and recovery within different operating conditions. The model input parameters including pulp pH and solid ...
The flotation by surface sulphidisation of the oxidized copper-cobalt-bearing ore from Kimpe (1.97% Cu; 0.66% Co) was studied in order to evaluate its behavior by the analysis of its most ...
The copper oxidation species might not be critical in the flotation of copper minerals; however, they can activate some other minerals present in the ore samples such as pyrite or non-sulphide gangue minerals, which then affect the selectivity of the separation. 3.2. Iron. The EDTA extractable iron after grinding (mill discharge) is about 2%.
Froth flotation is a highly versatile method for physically separating particles based on differences in the ability of air bubbles to selectively adhere to specific mineral surfaces in a mineral/water slurry.
The bench-scale flotation results show that using acidified water glass in conjunction with locust bean gum is suitable in the flotation of a refractory copper sulfide ore that contains multiple MgO gangue minerals, and a copper concentrate with grade of 20.25% and recovery of 75.8% is achieved when the feed ore copper grade is 0.16%.
The copper ore sample was obtained from Northparkes Copper & Gold Mine, Australia. This ore was chosen due to its relatively unproblematic flotation characteristics. Such an ore provides a formidable baseline for the identification of the deleterious effects of clays. The chemical assays of the ore sample contains 0.5% Cu, …
1.1. FLOT-ART (Flotation advanced recovery technology) This paper aims to discuss the concepts of an integrated plant optimization tool for the flotation of copper …
In this investigation, the effect of two different ore types (high pyritic and low pyritic feeds) was studied on rougher stage of industrial copper flotation circuit. Samples were taken from different streams and the structure of …
The rougher flotation and closed-circuit flotation tests of copper-nickel sulfide ore (1.0 kg) were performed on XFD-63 type flotation machines of different capacities (3.0 L, 1.0 L, obtained from Wuhan Exploration Machinery Co., Ltd.) [5], with mechanically stirring speed of 1610 rpm.The 3.0 L cell was used for rougher and …
This paper focuses on optimizing the parameters of the copper ore flotation process, which is the most expensive in obtaining copper concentrate, in order to …
The advantages of pneumatic flotation cells over mechanical flotation cells, as well as flotation columns, for the flotation of sulfide ore were demonstrated. Test results indicated that the Cu grade and recovery for concentrates obtained when using the pneumatic flotation cell were 1% to 2% and 4%, respectively, higher than those …
The dosage of a collector is an important factor that determines the efficiency of a froth flotation process. The representative sample of the carbonatitic Palabora copper ore ground 45 % passing 75 µm was froth-floated with sodium isobutyl xanthate (SIBX) collector at 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 g/t dosages. The concentrates and tails were dried …
Abstract: Three factors were measured in the flotation process of copper ore: the copper grade in. a concentrate ( ), the copper grade in tailings (#), and the …
For instance for a chalcocite copper ore the maximum theoretical content is 79.9% because theoretical Cu content in Cu 2 S is 79.9%. In many cases, the separation line starts at another point on the grade axis. ... experiments were carried out in a laboratory Mekhanobr type sub-aeration flotation machine equipped with a 1 dm 3 cell. The same ...
The bulk ore sample and flotation reagents used in this study were provided in-kind by Aurelia Metals. The deposit contains copper, iron, lead, zinc sulfides along with gold. Their concentrator has flexibility to produce gold doré (a semi-pure concentrate of gold and silver) and separate copper, lead, and zinc concentrates depending on the ...
In this work, the prediction and optimisation of copper flotation has been conducted in the rougher flotation circuit. The copper-recovery prediction involved the application of support vector machine (SVM), Gaussian process regression (GPR), multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network (ANN), linear regression (LR), and random …
Porphyry copper deposits are important sources of copper and typically processed by flotation to produce copper concentrates. As mining areas become deeper, the amounts of impurities, such as sphalerite, can be increased in copper ores, so the appropriate depression of sphalerite floatability should be achieved to obtain saleable copper …
Flotation of the copper ore after grinding in a ceramic ball mill without collector The flotation response of the iron sulphides after grinding in either a ce- ramic or iron mill, is independent of Eh (Fig. 8 ). However, the levels of flo- tation are greater in a ceramic mill than when grinding is carried out in a cast iron ball mill.